Skin Lane by Neil Bartlett

Author:Neil Bartlett
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Published: 2018-06-19T14:00:00+00:00

Talking to him, that was his main problem. On the Tuesday, for instance, come half past ten, he’d still uttered barely a word to the boy. If he kept this up, he knew that someone was bound to ask him the one question which he really didn’t want to hear, which was of course Are you alright this morning, Mr F? — so, just before the dinner-break, he forced himself to go and have a brief but proper conversation. Nothing that involved looking Beauty in the eye, you understand, just a couple of brief practical suggestions on trimming a musquash he’d seen him hesitating over. Even this simple task proved fraught, however. The phrases which had come so easily in the early days seemed to lodge themselves clumsily in his throat; he’d hear the sentences forming in his head (Go on then; touch it!) — but wasn’t at all sure that they’d come out right. Not now that everything had changed. It wasn’t the actual words so much that were the problem, he thought, as what voice he ought to use. If he was sterner than usual, the boy might ask if something was wrong; and if he was kind, too kind — well then he was sure to think there was.

Even if he didn’t say so…

All the time, he had the obscure sensation that he ought to be protecting himself — but he had no idea from what, or how.

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